While Tweeting up with some of the local folks this weekend, one of them said they wanted to donate to my Livestrong Challenge effort but didn’t really understand it. So I figured I’d blog about it to try to give them a better idea of what I’m doing. Let’s see how this works in the […]
Last year, I wrote about the Ford Island Bridge Run right around when I started this blog. It was the first organized event I did after starting Athletic Diabetic, and just today in the mail the entry for the 2010 version of the event showed up. For folks on O’ahu, this is a follow up […]
I’m tired and sore but I had a fine time and I learned more about myself, even if I didn’t reach my speed goal. Today was the 8K, the second of three races in the Great Aloha Run Readiness Series. In addition to a nice shirt, I ran myself up and down a hill and […]
My first competitive run since the 5K in December was the Harold Chapson 8K, part of the three race Great Aloha Run Readiness Series. Like the Sylvia A. Martz 5K, it starts and ends at Kapi’olani Park in Waikiki on O’ahu; unlike the SAM’s 5K, it’s not all flat. In fact, it was rather hilly. […]
I’m cautiously optimistic. I’m having some of the best training runs I’ve ever had and I feel pretty darned fine, but I am having the occasional bit of knee pain in both knees and my back, while better than when I started this current training program, still hurts and is stiff from time to time. […]
I’m committed now. I’m definitely going to Philadelphia for the Livestrong Challenge, and I’ll be doing both the 10K run (which, quite frankly, I’m not worried about) and the century (which, quite frankly, I am worried about). And as I said the other day, I have been just blown away by the generosity of the […]
I’m feeling winded, but not really sore. I really believe this training program I’m currently on for running–which, while my secondary athletic endeavor, has taken a front seat due to the fact that I have three running events coming up within the next seven weeks–is working. That fascinates me, because I’ve been such a struggling […]
I haven’t discussed it much at all but one of the big events of the year for me is the Great Aloha Run. It’s one of the largest athletic events of the year in Hawai’i, and while it’s not up there in prestige or challenge with the Honolulu Marathon, it’s a great time for many […]
Yes, I’m still (mostly) on a holiday hiatus–and unlike my other blogs, this blog is never a weekend poster–but as a follow up to yesterday’s post about my entering the Livestrong Challenge in Philadelphia, I have to say that I am grateful, honored, humbled, and awed by the response. Within the first 24 hours of […]
As I continue to experiment with heart rate training (my current bit of reading is the Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot), I am finding that my initial reaction to training with the monitor is common–that I feel like I’m going too slowly when I do my “easy” days. What I’ve noticed, three weeks […]